516 NOCTUIDiE. 



the antemedial line represented by a black striga from costa, a 

 streak on subcostal nervure, and an obsolescent line towards inner 

 margin, angled inwards on vein 1 ; a prominent white — J-mark on 

 extremity of median nervure ; postmedial line represented by some 

 black points on. the veins, bent outwards below costa^ then ob- 

 liquely curved to middle of inner margin, another series of points 

 beyond it, arising from the same point at vein 7, angled at vein 4, 

 then oblique, and joined at vein 4 by a brown and black shade from 

 termen below apex ; the terminal area with brownish streaks in 

 the interspaces and white streaks on the veins ; a terminal series 

 of small black lunules ; cilia chequered black and white. Hind 

 wing fuscous, ochreous towards base and inner margin ; the cilia 

 ochreous ; the underside ochreous, irrorated with black and suffused 

 near the curved black postmedial line. 



Hah. Cetlon, W. Haputale (Maclivood), 1 <J type. Exj^. 34 

 millim. 



1881. Cirphis dharma. (Plate XCII. fig. 15.) 



Leucania dharma, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 338, pi. 37. f. 17; Hmpsn. 



Moths Ind. ii. p. 270. 

 Leucania nifescens, Moore, Lep. Atk. p. 102 (1882). 



Head and thorax ochreous mixed with bright rufous : sides of 

 palpi and frons tinged with fuscous ; tegulae with dark lines near 

 base and extremity ; patagia with some black scales near upper 

 edge ; abdomen ochreous dorsally tinged with brown. Fore wing 

 ochreous, more or less suffused with rufous except on costal and 

 inner areas, which are irrorated with black ; the veins defined by 

 rufous streaks and the interspaces streaked with rufous ; a subbasal 

 black point on costa ; the antemedial line represented by black points 

 on costa, below cell, in submedian fold, and on vein 1, oblique from 

 costa to submedian fold ; the median nervure streaked with fuscous, 

 a white streak on its extremity slightly hooked on discocellulars, 

 with a black point before it in lower angle of cell and a small black 

 patch beyond it ; veins 4, 3 slightly streaked with white ; traces of 

 a highly crenulate postmedial line produced to a prominent series 

 of black points on the veins, bent outwards below costa, and oblique 

 below vein 4, where it is met by an oblique shade from termen 

 just below apex ; a terminal series of black points. Hind wing 

 ochreous sufifused with fuscous except base and costal area; the 

 cilia ochreous ; the underside ochreous, the costal and terminal 

 areas irrorated with black, a discoidal lunule, indistinct sinuous 

 postmedial line, with series of short streaks on the veins and terminal 

 series of ))oints. 



Bab. Punjab, Dharmsala {Hocking), 1 c? , 2 5 ; Sikhim (Lidcler- 

 dale, EJwes), 3 J , 2 $ , type rvfescens ; Andamans, 1 $ . Ex^j. 40 

 millim. 



1882. Cirphis rulistrigosa. (Plate XCII. fig. 16.) 



Leticania 7-iifistrigosa, Moore, P. Z. S. 1881, p. 337; Hiiipsu. Moths lud. 

 ii. p. 270. 



Head and thorax ochreous tinged with rufous ; the tegulae 



